Itisyourattitudetowardsitmatte-优题课

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Painting a picture of Picasso
Pablo Picasso was born in Spain, in 1881. His father, was also an artist, encouraged him (start) drawing at a very young age. The father soon noticed that his son was far more talented painter than he was, so he promised never to pick up a paintbrush again. In 1895, Picasso and his family moved to Barcelona, where he attended the school of Fine Arts. After (graduate), he continued his studies in Madrid, but instead of going to class, he spent his days at the Prado Museum, copying the style of famous old painters.
When he later returned to Barcelona, Picasso started to visit the Four Cats, a café which (be) popular with artists. Picasso would spend hours debating art with poets and other artists. These lively meetings at the café led to two (importance) events in Picasso’s life: first, he met the poet Jaime Sabartes and the painter Carlos Casagemas, who became his closest friends; second, he decided to devote his life experimenting with different styles of art instead of producing traditional art. In October 1900, Picasso (leave) Barcelona for the bright lights of Paris, and his life as a wandering artist really began.
Picasso formed his own style where the world is being (construct)of cubes and rectangles and finally he a huge (succeed)in the world of art.

阅读下面材料，在空格处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或使用括号中单词的正确形式。
Jane: Hi, Leo. You seem tired and sleepy today. Are you OK?
Leo: Oh, my neighborhood is so ______ (noise)—I can’t sleep much.
Jane: What’s going on in your neighborhood?
Leo: The road near my home ______ (repair), and that makes a lot of noise. That’s____ ___ I can’t sleep well at night these days.
Jane: Is it really loud?
Leo: Oh, it’s terrible! ______ (hope), the construction won’t last long.____ ___ they don’t finish the road soon, I’m afraid I’m going to go deaf.
Jane: Oh, that’s awful. How about your neighbors? Are they quiet and friendly?
Leo: Yes, most of them are. But one of my neighbors, David, ________ holds parties every night, won’t stop making noise. Being exposed____ ____ so much noise day after day really drives me mad!
Jane: It’s no use just________ (complain). Why not hold a neighborhood meeting? I’m sure you could come up with some good ______ (approach).
Leo: That’s a good idea. Why didn’t I think of that? _______ seems that I haven’t got a brain in my head these days.

阅读下列材料，在空白处填入适当的单词或用括号内单词的正确形式填空。
There once was a man who (be) blind from birth! He owned a fruit stand on a very busy street.
One day his only son came to him told him that he had read a new discovery in the newspaper they could operate on his eyes. The father and his son traveled to the doctor and paid for the operation.
The doctor asked the man the operation, “ What is the first thing you want to see when I take the bandages(绷带) off?”
The blind man replied, “ I want to see my (beauty) fruit on my stand!”
The doctor and the son led the man to busy street where his fruit stand was located. They (careful) unwrapped the bandages. The man was so happy to see his life’s work taking care of his fruit!
After a few hours of enjoying his beautiful fruit stand, looked down at the street both ways and saw there were quite a few fruit (stand) in both directions. He looked across the street and saw other fruit stands. He spent so much time (look) at other fruit stands that he failed in his business!

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Last Friday a storm swept through two villages in the New Territories, (destroy) fourteen homes. Seven others were so badly damaged their owners had to leave them, and fifteen others had broken windows or roofs. One person was killed, several were (serious) hurt and taken to hospital, and a number of other people received smaller hurt. Altogether over two hundred people were homeless after the storm.
A farmer, Mr. Tan, said that the storm began early the morning and lasted for over an hour.
“I (eat) with my wife and children when we heard a loud noise” he said, “ A few minutes later our house fell down on top of us. We tried our best (climb) out but then I saw that one of my children was (miss). I went back inside and found him, safe very frightened.”
Mrs. Woo Mei Fong said that her husband had just left for work when she (feel) that her house was moving. She ran outside at once with ____children.
Soldiers helped to take people out of the flooded area and the welfare department brought them food, clothes and shelter.

阅读下面材料，用不多于1个单词的正确形式填空（每小题1.5分，15小题；30分）
Once a farmer's donkey (驴) fell into a deep well. The animal cried loudly for hours, but the farmer couldn't figure out what to do it. Finally, he decided that the animal was old and that the well needed to be covered anyway, so he (think) the donkey wasn't worth saving.
Then, he invited some of his neighbors to come over and help . They all took a shovel (铁铲) and began to put dirt into the well.
At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried (pitiful). Then, to everyone's surprise, the donkey became quiet. A few shovel loads later, the farmer looked down into the well and was astonished at he saw.
Each shovel of dirt hit its back, but the donkey was doing something (amaze) . It was shaking the dirt off and taking a step up. the neighbors continued to put more dirt on top of the animal, it would shake the dirt off and take one more step up.
Pretty soon everyone was surprised as the donkey stepped up over the edge of well and ran off happily!
When life sometimes ( put) dirt on you, the best way of getting out of the well is to shake the dirt off and take a step up. Each of your troubles is a stepping stone. You can get out of die deepest well just never giving up!